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NoImRenlea · 2023-11-19T19:45:11+00:00

As Christmas is approaching I have been thinking about this really weird Christmas we went to a few years ago. One of DH’s aunties insisted on hosting a family thing a few weeks before. We drove the 4 hours or so to get there, saying we’d arrive at 6pm. In the end, we got there about 6.10… to find that everyone had eaten. They’d dished up on the dot of 6 and then wolfed it down. They were very hospitable in serving us the leftovers, so much so that the auntie jumped out her seat and actually waited on us, then once we had a plate of food she left to do the washing up. It was so so weird and I sometimes wonder if something was lost in translation somewhere

Sherwil16 · 20/11/2023 14:46

The weirdest meal I ever went to was in Lisbon. We wanted to go to a vegetarian restaurant and knew that Portugal wasn't great for non- meat or fish eaters, so we looked in the phone directory ( this was in the 1980s) and found an address for what we thought was the perfect place. It was quite a walk from the hotel we were staying in, but we were curious to see what would be on offer. As we got closer, there were blocks of flats and it looked like our restaurant was on the fourth floor of a 6- storey block. We went in the lift and found the correct number and knocked on the door of an ordinary- looking flat with no sign outside of it being anything else. We were let in by some elderly people, none of whom spoke English and just kept looking at us strangely. We were served various foods ( all vegetarian) and after we'd eaten it was clear that we should leave. No money was asked for and we left, bemused by the whole evening. Afterwards, the four of us decided we had stumbled on a vegetarian meeting rather than a restaurant. I wish we'd returned later in the week, as we couldn't really believe what we'd experienced.

Lala87 · 20/11/2023 14:49

NoImRenlea · 19/11/2023 20:07

Auntie Sue, is that you….?

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MirandaGreenwood · 20/11/2023 14:56

Sherwil16 · 20/11/2023 14:46

The weirdest meal I ever went to was in Lisbon. We wanted to go to a vegetarian restaurant and knew that Portugal wasn't great for non- meat or fish eaters, so we looked in the phone directory ( this was in the 1980s) and found an address for what we thought was the perfect place. It was quite a walk from the hotel we were staying in, but we were curious to see what would be on offer. As we got closer, there were blocks of flats and it looked like our restaurant was on the fourth floor of a 6- storey block. We went in the lift and found the correct number and knocked on the door of an ordinary- looking flat with no sign outside of it being anything else. We were let in by some elderly people, none of whom spoke English and just kept looking at us strangely. We were served various foods ( all vegetarian) and after we'd eaten it was clear that we should leave. No money was asked for and we left, bemused by the whole evening. Afterwards, the four of us decided we had stumbled on a vegetarian meeting rather than a restaurant. I wish we'd returned later in the week, as we couldn't really believe what we'd experienced.

Fabulous story!